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BSA Images Of The Week: 11.05.23

BSA Images Of The Week: 11.05.23

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Nobody was out Friday night when we went to see “Stop Making Sense” on the screen; the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn at 10 pm were rather lightly attended, possibly because everyone was recovering from a mid-week Halloween/Day of the Dead blast of drunkenness, revelry, laughter, and tears. Sometimes, even New York turns into a series of bedroom communities standing vertically.

The New York City Marathon is here today, with about 50,000 runners sprinting from Staten Island to Central Park, traversing neighborhoods, bridges, boroughs, and millions of spectators. It is two hours for the head of the pack – although it lasts all day, with some people still running/walking/rolling through the street when the sun sets. And, of course, it really lasts your entire life if you let yourself become engulfed by the human spectacle of it, which we often have and still sometimes do.

The world is still tense and angry and nervous and mournful about the events in the Middle East as we all feel like we have reached a never-before-seen turning point that is changing the world’s perception of that region and our roles in it. New York is showing signs of this stress as well.

Also, there’s that small matter of the Bank of America.

Here is our weekly interview with the street: this week featuring City Kitty, Homesick, Modomatic, Eye Sticker, Michael Alan, Jenna Morello, OSK, Mue Bon, Keoni VGN, Salto, BH, BAKA, and Swed Oner.

SWED ONER honors Kenny who visits the Bowery Mission every day to find solace, help, and kindred spirits. The Bowery Mission is a New York institution founded in 1879 to provide essential services to the ever-growing homeless population in New York City. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SWED ONER (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SWED ONER (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jenna Morello. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jenna Morello (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Street Artiste D’etat (photo © Jaime Rojo)
City Kitty (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mue Bon (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OSK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Homesick (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BAKA (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BH (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Salto (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Michael Alan (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Modomatic (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Eye Sticker (photo © Jaime Rojo)
In last Sunday’s edition of BSA Images of The Week, we published a WIP photo of KEONI VGN’s portrait of Rosa Parks. Here’s the completed work. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 07.09.23

BSA Images Of The Week: 07.09.23

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Hello Friends! Lots of good new graffiti and street art and murals out there this week as the city was pausing for some fireworks – nearly every day including the official ones on Tuesday night. The illegal fireworks never completely go away, but they ebb and flow from year to year. The rotating sculpture of the Statue of Liberty that was made of drones really impressed the crowds of New Yorkers this year as they were waiting for the show on the 4th.

In the news, our Mayor may have had some curious donor scheme, our delivery people are getting resistance from corporate powers to a minimum wage for their work, and our ultra-rich citizens, whose income tax is capped so they pay only about 1% of itare positioning themselves to take away Social Security from millions of their fellow Americans who depend upon it.

And a word on cluster bombs, which America is intending to deploy in Ukraine? They are not “controversial”, they are immoral. According to the Guardian, “More than 100 countries, including the UK, France and Germany, have signed an international treaty – the Convention on Cluster Munitions – that outlaws the use or stockpiling of these weapons due to their indiscriminate effect on civilian populations.

Children are particularly prone to injury as the bomblets can resemble a small toy left in a residential or farmland area and are often picked up out of curiosity.

Human rights groups have described cluster munitions as “abhorrent” and even a war crime.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: finDAC, Jenna Morello, DepsOne, TomBoy NYC, Tom Bob, Hiroshi Masuda, Cale K29, Fel 3000 Ft, Edospac, Seb Bouchard, Quaker Pirate, GOAT, and Trasheer.

Tom Bob (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Tom Bob (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hiroshi Masuda (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Cale K29 in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
DepsOne (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Fel 3000 Ft in Wynwood, Mimai. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Edospac (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Queens in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Seb Bouchard (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Quaker Pirate (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Quaker Pirate (photo © Jaime Rojo)
GOAT (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Trasheer (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jenna Morello (photo © Jaime Rojo)
An old Findac surrounded by graffiti in Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Sunset. Summer 2023. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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‘Roses for Rosendale’ Brings Lady Pink and Many Blooms to Upstate New York

‘Roses for Rosendale’ Brings Lady Pink and Many Blooms to Upstate New York

A community-fueled project in a small town in Upstate New York has the draw of Lady Pink, the well-known 1970s/80s NYC graffiti writer, who lends her art and name, and spearheaded the project.

Today we go outside our fair city for “Roses for Rosendale”, a town-sprucing initiative two hours north of NYC that just bloomed with a number of murals by artists whose names you’ll recognize like Shiro, Queen Andrea, Alice Mizrachi, Muck and others – along with some local talents.

Matt O’Connor from a design by Lady Pink. Roses for Rosendale. Rosendale, New York. (photo © Martha Cooper)

On-the-spot veteran photojournalist Martha Cooper hopped the bus up there to catch the action and she reports that the heroes of the day were the many volunteers who assisted in every way to assure that the artists had what was needed to adorn many walls here.

“The rose murals were painted both on Rosendales’s charming vintage brick and clapboard buildings as well as on the shopfronts of a nearby strip mall,” the renowned graffiti and street art photographer Cooper tells us. “It was a sweet little festival in a non-urban location familiar to a lot of Brooklynites.” It is true that many New Yorkers, especially Brooklynites, escaped to this region in a huge wave along the Hudson River Valley after September 11th, and then again recently many city types ‘discovered’ this storied region after the Covid lockdowns chased them to find greener pastures.

“We have over 16 locations with over 35 volunteers painting,” says Lady Pink on her Instagram posting. “Professional and emerging artists, people who just wanted to help! Locals and artists from as far as Japan came to paint roses and beautify a town. It was a weeklong painting extravaganza that filled hearts with joy.”

Jenna Morello. Roses for Rosendale. Rosendale, New York. (photo © Martha Cooper)
The front facade was painted by Lizzy Dimuccio, Chloe Mosbacher from a design by Lady Pink. Side painted by Brian Curry. Roses for Rosendale. Rosendale, New York. (photo © Martha Cooper)
Jean Tansey. Roses for Rosendale. Rosendale, New York. (photo © Martha Cooper)
Jean Tansey. Roses for Rosendale. Rosendale, New York. (photo © Martha Cooper)
Thistle Pernot. Roses for Rosendale. Rosendale, New York. (photo © Martha Cooper)
Thistle Pernot. Roses for Rosendale. Rosendale, New York. (photo © Martha Cooper)
Lady Pink. Roses for Rosendale. Rosendale, New York. (photo © Martha Cooper)
Lady Pink. Roses for Rosendale. Rosendale, New York. (photo © Martha Cooper)
Stef Skills, Alice Mizrachi, and Queen Andrea. Roses for Rosendale. Rosendale, New York. (photo © Martha Cooper)
Chloe Mosbacher, Jennifer Jackowitz, and Phil and Amy Dooley from a design by Lady Pink. Roses for Rosendale. Rosendale, New York. (photo © Martha Cooper)
Baru. Roses for Rosendale. Rosendale, New York. (photo © Martha Cooper)
Lady Pink. Roses for Rosendale. Rosendale, New York. (photo © Martha Cooper)
Cheryl, Tim, and Mia. Roses for Rosendale. Rosendale, New York. (photo © Martha Cooper)
Cheryl, Tim, and Mia. Roses for Rosendale. Rosendale, New York. (photo © Martha Cooper)
Muckrock. Roses for Rosendale. Rosendale, New York. (photo © Martha Cooper)
Kira. Roses for Rosendale. Rosendale, New York. (photo © Martha Cooper)
John Breiner, DocTC5, Kira, and Halfguy. Roses for Rosendale. Rosendale, New York. (photo © Martha Cooper)
Kira, Doc TC5, John Breiner, and I Lovie NY. Roses for Rosendale. Rosendale, New York. (photo © Martha Cooper)
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BSA Images of the Week 01.13.19

BSA Images of the Week 01.13.19

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this time featuring Abe Lincoln Jr., Alexis Diaz, Brian Alfred, Celso, City Kitty, Cranio, Deih XLF, Diva Dogla, Dog Byste, Fales, Gane, Jenna Morello, MTO, Pleks, Raf Urban, Slomo29, Spaint, Uriginal.

Uriginal, Irene Lopez Leon, Deih.XLF, Slomo29. Wynwood, Miami 2018. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jenna Morello (photo © Jaime Rojo)

City Kitty (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Alexis Diaz. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Raf Urban (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gane . Texas updated their wall on the LES in NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

MTO. Wynwood, Miami 2018. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

MTO. Wynwood, Miami 2018. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Spaint. Wynwood, Miami 2018. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

PLEKS for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Brian Alfred (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Brian Alfred (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Cranio. Wynwood, Miami 2018. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

False (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Abe Lincoln Jr. in collaboration with Maia Lorian phone booth ad takeover. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Diva Dogla (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dog Byte (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Celso. Wynwood, Miami 2018. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. The South. USA January 2019. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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